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- Radio Dtoid records tonight! Ask us questions, dammit
- Jonathan's personal GotY for best butt goes to...
- Chris Carter's personal picks for Game of the Year 2014
- Nominees for Destructoid's Best World Design of 2014
- Devolver Digital releases new free platformer on Steam
- Far Cry 4 DLC wants you dead... permanently
- Wallet Busters: PC games winter sales arrive in force
- Respawn working on 'non Titanfall' project
- Okay, Final Fantasy XV looks pretty damn awesome
| Radio Dtoid records tonight! Ask us questions, dammit Posted: 20 Dec 2014 11:00 AM PST Radio Destructoid is our official community-focused podcast! Join hosts Conor Elsea (US Community Manager), Bill Platt (Community Playdate Manager), Kyle MacGregor (Associate Editor), Occams Electric Toothbrush (Community Blogs Manager), and Mr Andy Dixon as they talk about their favorite Dtoid community happenings! It's time for another episode of Radio Destructoid! On last week's show, we welcomed our two new co-hosts into the fat fold: Bill Platt and Occams Electric Toothbrush. And this week, community member Hyper Lemon Buster Cannon graces us with his presence! Want to ask any of us a question? Hit us up in the comments below! Our favorite question will win a copy of Retro City Rampage DX on either Steam or PS3/PS4/Vita (your choice), so make 'em count! You have until 9pm Pacific tonight to submit your questions. Have fun! |
| Jonathan's personal GotY for best butt goes to... Posted: 20 Dec 2014 09:00 AM PST The Captain Falcon amiibo is apparently pretty hard of get a hold of right now. Through a strange series of events, I ended up with one last night. Without getting into all the details, I'll let you know that I ended up standing beside a local Pokémon champion at nearby Target store. He influenced the clerks behind the counter to look in their backroom for Captain Falcon amiibos. The clerks were sure they didn't have any in stock. The Pokémon champion was sure that they did. Somehow, he was sure. Guess who was right? To be clear, I don't entirely approve of the amiibo craze. Seeing so many people spend their time and money on all these ornamental plastic statues while they ignore great Wii U games like Stealth Inc 2, Lone Survivor, 1001 Spikes, and Thomas Was Alone makes me a little blue. That said, the Captain Falcon amiibo is a charmer worth squawking about, which is why it won my personal butt of the year award. Thanks again to the Beastie Boys. |
| Chris Carter's personal picks for Game of the Year 2014 Posted: 20 Dec 2014 08:00 AM PST Despite what people may say, I thought 2014 was an excellent year. Heck, nearly every year is great for gaming. I played over 300 titles across all platforms, a little more than last year -- but mostly that's because of my promotion to Reviews Director at Destructoid. It took me weeks to narrow down my top selections, a process I started in earnest in November. There was so much to play this year, with offerings all across the spectrum of gaming. Here are my top 10 picks in no particular order. |
| Nominees for Destructoid's Best World Design of 2014 Posted: 20 Dec 2014 05:00 AM PST [Image credit: Mike Lambert] If we are the world, then technically this award is for all of us. Pat yourselves on the back. Only 12 games are being nominated, though, and only 1 will be winning the award. But it's an honor just to be nominated. Creating worlds, interactive digital spaces for us to dive into, is one of the strength of games, tying back to that good old feeling, "immersion." These nominees created coherent or otherwise arresting virtual realities. Alien tension. Sweeping scope. Hot Topic's vision of punk rock. Southern Gothic magical realism. |
| Devolver Digital releases new free platformer on Steam Posted: 20 Dec 2014 04:00 AM PST Just in time for the holidays, indie gaming's veritable babe in the manger Devolver Digital has wormed its way down your virtual chimney and stuffed your hopeful little stocking to capacity with free retro-amazing (Retromazing™) platforming goodness! From the creators of the stellar-looking dungeon crawler/shooter hybrid Enter the Gungeon, Dodge Roll Games presents: Fork Parker's Holiday Profit Hike -- a new free game available now on Steam. "The fiscal year is coming to a close and poor Fork Parker has lost all his wonderful profit to greedy developers and their endless thirst for royalties! Grab a martini and ride your private helicopter to the snow capped mountains and hunt down the riches you so rightly deserve. Jump, dash, and repel your way up the sheer mountainside to scratch out a little profit and meet the demands of an increasingly angry board of directors!" Features include, but are not limited to:
Steam reviews so far seem pretty positive, with at least one Steam user, DaavPuke, going so far as to tout the title featuring indie gaming's favorite chief financial officer as "DuckTales for Assholes." That's high praise, in my book. So, what are you doing still hanging around here? Go download this thing already! Also: Happy holidays, Destructoid!!! <3 <3 <3 |
| Far Cry 4 DLC wants you dead... permanently Posted: 20 Dec 2014 12:30 AM PST Far Cry 4 was a pretty restrained game by comparison to Far Cry 3. Sure you could command an elephant into battle, but the game's hero Ajay Ghale never got himself into enough truly bizarre situations. Thankfully, there's a new DLC coming out that fixes that by throwing you weaponless and naked into a prison cell with Far Cry 3's crazy and chaotic Hurk. Escape from Durgesh Prison is coming out on January 13 for $9.99 (free for any season pass holders out there) and tasks you with surviving a series of time trial challenges. It can be played single player or co-op, meaning you can fight naked and weaponless with a friend, if that's what you're into. No idea how permadeath works in co-op, as apparently if you die you'll have to start the whole thing back over from the start. Hopefully you won't have either one friend bored waiting to try from the start or a friend annoyed at restarting when they didn't die. |
| Wallet Busters: PC games winter sales arrive in force Posted: 20 Dec 2014 12:00 AM PST For those PC gamers who aren't yet broke from all the holiday shopping, this week Steam, GMG, GameStop, and heck -- even Uplay, launched PC games winter sales to tug at your wallet. Steam's winter sale went live Thursday at the usual 10:00 AM time slot, filled with some nice surprise such as the appearance of Microsoft Flight Simulator X Steam Edition. Over at GMG, they're attempting to price match Steam and tossing in a coupon for an additional 20% off for good measure. GameStop's winter sale, while not as large as others, does have EA titles such as Battlefield 4 and C&C Ultimate Collection for only five bucks. Meanwhile, everyone's favorite DRM Uplay has its catalog on sale too: the excellent Valiant Hearts and Child of Light are only $6 a piece. Heck, even Steam keys of Stick of Truth are available at $13. If you're looking for a last-minute gift on a console system, a few retailers are having some decent sales. For instance, the Xbox One Assassin's Creed Unity Bundle is $349.99 at Target with a bonus $70 Gift Card today while the 32GB Wii U Deluxe clocks in at $249.99. Not bad. Game deals brought to by the crew at Dealzon. FYI: Sales from certain retailers help support Destructoid. |
| Respawn working on 'non Titanfall' project Posted: 19 Dec 2014 10:30 PM PST Earlier this year Respawn Entertainment graced the world with the arrival of Titanfall, a flawed but impressive first-person shooter full of high speed vertical traversal and super cool giant robot suits. Today brings the news that yes there is probably more Titanfall coming from Respawn, but the studio is also working on something new. According to an interview with Respawn CEO Vince Zampella over on Game Informer, Respawn has split into two teams, with the new smaller team working on something "non Titanfall." All we know at the moment about this smaller team is that it includes Stig Asmussen, formerly development head on God of War 3 at Sony Santa Monica. "There is a second team. Non-Titanfall related... We have another team in pre-production that's smaller, just starting up. But it's a much smaller group at this point." Zampella also let a few other little bits of info out during the interview. Apparently future Respawn games may come to Steam, but they're unlikely to be there on day one. Also, don't expect much more news from Respawn during 2015, as the teams will be spending the year "heads down, back to work." Zampella Discusses Titanfall's Future And Respawn's Mystery Project [Game Informer] |
| Okay, Final Fantasy XV looks pretty damn awesome Posted: 19 Dec 2014 04:30 PM PST Jump Festa is happening today in Chiba, Japan. What does that mean for us? Well, a stunning new trailer for Final Fantasy XV for one thing. It feels good to be excited about Final Fantasy again. The reel also gives us our first peek at Final Fantasy XV's incarnation of Cid, a recurring figure in the franchise. Actually, it's Cindy, in this case. (Or perhaps Cidney -- there seems to be some disagreement over this on account of how folks at Square Enix pronounce the name.) She's a mechanic, of course, which fits nicely along with the road trip motif and Cids having a proclivity for engineering. Her gender is a point of distinction among characters that bear the moniker, though, as she'll be the first female Cid in the series. |
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